Sentence examples for symbolic target from inspiring English sources

The company was a symbolic target for action against cuts.

"I would say I was a kind of symbolic target.

Mr. Fyssas appears to have been another symbolic target.

Djaout (who appears as a character in Gloria Emerson's 2000 novel "Loving Graham Greene") was an important symbolic target.

But every street and sector towards the mosque – a highly symbolic target of the fight – is claiming an increasing toll in blood and treasure.

In Cairo, the outer wall of the U.S. Embassy was breached, and protesters captured the American flag an obvious symbolic target, and a natural outcome of mob action.

"There's quite an instinctive realization that what happened on Sept. 11 may have been an attack on somewhat symbolic targets but that they were symbols of open and free societies, including our own," said Mr. Manley, who is chairman of a cabinet committee on antiterrorism.

Jihad operatives have long favored symbolic targets.

"It may lead to some more last-ditch, fanatical, suicide bombings against symbolic targets".

The coordinated violence directed at symbolic targets and real people reflect careful planning of a kind hitherto unseen from indigenous extremist movements.

Now we have attacks on civilian and symbolic targets by highly unconventional forces under the command of still unidentified parties with unknown ambitions.